(7 May 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rafah, Gaza Strip – 7 May 2024
1. Various of trucks and cars loaded with personal belongings
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Najwa al Siksik, displaced Palestinian:
"I don’t think it (Israel) will approve (the deal). (Israel) doesn’t care about us or our children. (Israel) only cares about its people. And Netanyahu only cares about being at the top. He doesn’t care about the children. We are not very optimistic because it has been months and they kept giving us hope and telling us tomorrow or after tomorrow (a truce will take place). And as you can hear (the sounds of drones and blasts) this was happening all night long."
3. People walking in the street carrying their belongings
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nasser al-Sharif, displaced Palestinian from northern Gaza:
"The poor people are being displaced from one area to another, and there are no safe zones. There are no safe zones in all of Gaza Strip. Israeli government will stall like every time. Hamas agreed to the proposal presented by Israel, and they said they will send a delegation. God knows if he (Netanyahu) will send one or not, because he cares less about the world or the U.S."
5. People collapsing down tents
6. Family standing among tents
7. Smoke from blast near tents
8. Cars passing by loaded with belongings
STORYLINE:
Thousands of Palestinians continued to flee areas in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah a day after evacuation orders were dropped by Israeli planes.
Many packed their belongings onto trucks, donkey carts, rickshaw and other vehicles, others dismantled their tents to move elsewhere, fleeing the incursion by Israeli forces into Gaza’s southernmost town.
The Israeli evacuation order left Palestinians in Rafah wrestling with having to uproot their families once again for an unknown fate, exhausted after months of living in sprawling tent camps or crammed into schools or other shelters in and around the city.
On Tuesday, Israeli tanks seized control of Gaza’s vital Rafah border crossing as Israel brushed off urgent warnings from close allies and moved into the southern city even as cease-fire negotiations with Hamas remained on a knife’s edge.
Earlier, Israeli forces carried out a flurry of strikes and bombardment across Rafah overnight, killing at least 23 Palestinians, including at least six women and five children, according to hospital records seen by The Associated Press.
The foray came after hours of whiplash in the Israel-Hamas war, with the militant group on Monday saying it accepted an Egyptian-Qatari mediated cease-fire proposal. Israel, however, insisted the deal did not meet its core demands.
AP video shot by Mohammad Jahjouh
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